From the it's about time department: Barack Obama is easing restrictions on American contact with Cuba, but he isn't going far enough. Time to lift the trade embargo. Fidel Castro is no longer in power - and every major country in the world has already been investing in Cuba.

The $1 trillion in economic commitments from world leaders is a big coup for Barack Obama in his role in this much-anticipated G-20 summit. Wall Street is happy.

There were expectations that the president would leave Europe with his feelings hurt because so many world leaders were leery's of Obama's near $800 billion bailout plan, and his request that they pony up with bailouts of their own.